Necktie-fastener



I UNITED STATES "PAT NT OF IC it ROLLIN E. KELSEY, 0F GORUNNA, MICHIGAN.

NECKTlE-FASTENE R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.'278,342, dated May 29, .1883.

Application filed November 11, 1882. .(No model.)

To all whom it may concern 7 Be it known that I, RoLLIN E. KELsEY, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Oorunna, in the county of Shiawassee and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in. Necktie-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, ref? erence being had therein to the accom 'iaiiying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a rear view of a scarf or necktie provided with a fastening device constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the same, showing one manner of using the fastener; and Fig. 3, a similar section, showing another manner of securing the scarf or tie.

Like letters refer to like parts in all the fig ures. y

A represents the usual foundation-card of a scarf of usual construction, and a a represent two staples, the prongs or. legs of which may be secured thereto in any suitable manner. In this case they are passed through the card and clinched or upset, as shown. at a. Pivotally connected to the staples are a buttonloop, B, and a securing and steadying bail, G.

The loop B is contracted at its upper end to embrace the shaft or neck of the button D, which in this instance is represented as an ordinary double headed collar button, butwhich may be an ordinary flat button secured by stitches to the band E of the neck of a shirt. Below the contracted end of the loop B the legs are bent, asat b, and spread and bent at their ends to form eyes, through which the staples a are passed, thus forming a hinged or pivotal connection, which permits the swinging of the loop end away from the card, and thereby facilitating the operation of placing said loop over the head and upon the shaft of the button, the bend b acting to press the parts together, as hereinafter stated. The bail G is in like mannerconnected to the staples a a, and can therefore be swung down, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, whereby, after the. loop is placed upon the button-shaft, the bail may be readily swung upand inserted either between the collar-bands c c and the neckband E, as shown in Fig. or between the loop B and the collar-bands c e, as shown in ig. 3, when the bail will bear snugly against the under side of the button-shaft, as shown in Fig. 1, and thelegs of the bail,being widely separated, serve, in connection with the spring-pressure of the bend b or contracted portion of the loop B, to firmly hold the scarf or tie not only against removal from the button,but, by reason of the construction and relative arrangement of the parts, oscillation or other movement of the tie or scarf upon the button is prevented.

It is evident that the legs of the loop B may be formed into spiral or coil springs and terminating eyes, so that when the bail is placed against the button-shaft there may be a yielding draft of the loop, and also, perhaps, greater facility of attachment of the loop to the button, and for the same purpose a rubber loop might be substituted for the wire loop B, so that the bail may be applied to all common bows, ties, and scarfs; or, in other words, the bail 0 may be alone applied to ordinary scarfs, which have the usual loop of rubber for attachment to the neckband or collar-button and therefore I should deem such a use of the bail as embraced within my invention. In a mcasure, the upper end of the bail being curved, as shown, and wide,it acts as a spring and bears yicldingly against the shaft of the button, and, if desired, it may be secured to the staples or card by rubber loops.

Having described my invention and its operation, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A scarf or necktie fastener consisting of abutton-loop and a bail, each pivoted to the foundation, and the former adapted to' embrace and the latter to bear against theshaft of the collar-button, substantially as shownand described.

2. In a scarf or necktie fastener, the combination of the cardA, the loop- B, and the bail (J, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a scarf or necktie fastener, the loop B, bent at b, in combination with the bail (J,

curved atits upper end, substantially as shown and described.

4.. The combination of the card A, loop B,

bent as at b, the bail G, curved at its upper tion of the card by staples a a, substantially end, the staples a a, and the button D, subas shown and described. 1 stantially as shown and described. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 5. Ina scarf or necktie fastener, the combipresence of two witnesses. nation of the card A and the loop B, con- ROLLIN E. KELSEY. v tracted at its free end to embrace the stud of Witnesses: a button, bent outwardly, as at b, and secured O. T. ARMSTRONG,

at its expanded pivotal end to the lower por- R. E. HELMORE. 

